{"id":124825,"date":"2019-12-25T14:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/25\/the-tech-giants-dominated-the-decade-but-theres-still-time-to-rein-them-in-jay-owens\/"},"modified":"2019-12-25T14:00:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T13:00:42","slug":"the-tech-giants-dominated-the-decade-but-theres-still-time-to-rein-them-in-jay-owens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=124825","title":{"rendered":"The tech giants dominated the decade. But there\u2019s still time to rein them in | Jay Owens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google, Amazon and Facebook moved at a scale and speed governments couldn\u2019t match. Now regulators are trying to catch upThe 2010s will be remembered for a new era in the development of capitalism, one of mind-boggling scale. Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are closing the decade as the world\u2019s first trillion-dollar companies. Last year, Apple\u2019s revenue was larger than Vietnam\u2019s GDP, while Amazon\u2019s research and development spending alone is almost as much as Iceland\u2019s GDP. Facebook boasts 2.4 billion users, a population larger than that of every continent except Asia. Related: The dark side of tech: why the Guardian asks tough questions about Silicon Valley Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/25\/2010s-tech-giants-google-amazon-facebook-regulators\" target=\"_blank\">The tech giants dominated the decade. But there\u2019s still time to rein them in | Jay Owens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google, Amazon and Facebook moved at a scale and speed governments couldn\u2019t match. Now regulators are trying to catch upThe 2010s will be remembered for a new era in the development of capitalism, one of mind-boggling scale. Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are closing the decade as the world\u2019s first trillion-dollar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}